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<p>[QUOTE="rbm86, post: 17445, member: 854"]Susan, I agree with you, which was the main point of the thread I had started a while back:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=1781" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=1781" rel="nofollow">http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=1781</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly if that coin were left in its original mint packaging, it would not have toned like that. And I doubt if many people but modern commems in old Raymond Waite albums. So I suspect the coin was "created" by placing it in a sulphur laced envelope or album hole dusted with sulphur, and letting it sit for a few months or years. Not exactly "cooking" the coin, but not exactly "natural" either. This is the grety area.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that if that Statue of Liberty Dollar could make it into a PCGS holder, there is a good chance the Kennedy could as well! :O[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rbm86, post: 17445, member: 854"]Susan, I agree with you, which was the main point of the thread I had started a while back: [url]http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=1781[/url] Clearly if that coin were left in its original mint packaging, it would not have toned like that. And I doubt if many people but modern commems in old Raymond Waite albums. So I suspect the coin was "created" by placing it in a sulphur laced envelope or album hole dusted with sulphur, and letting it sit for a few months or years. Not exactly "cooking" the coin, but not exactly "natural" either. This is the grety area. I suspect that if that Statue of Liberty Dollar could make it into a PCGS holder, there is a good chance the Kennedy could as well! :O[/QUOTE]
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